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Smart Yogurt and Automatic Warfare? The Future of Computers in America
Groundbreaking achievements in computing are expected in the next 35 years.
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How the Father of the World Wide Web Plans to Reclaim It from Facebook and Google
Tim Berners-Lee is working to help you own your own data, while making it available to the applications that you want to be able to use it.
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A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed them todelayed...
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'faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out...
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The Bandwidth Bottleneck that Is Throttling the Internet
Researchers are scrambling to repair and expand data pipes worldwide — and to keep the information revolution from grinding to a halt.
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Stanford Research Could Improve Counseling on Crisis Help Lines
Researchers at Stanford University have analyzed text messages from crisis counseling sessions to identify techniques associated with successful sessions.
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ta Engineering Researcher to Develop Tools to Better Analyze Complex Patient Data
A University of Texas at Arlington professor is developing computing tools to enable researchers to better determine the best medical treatment pathways.
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The Beginning of the Internet of Robot Things
Robots will take the Internet of Things to the next level.
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The Bandwidth Bottleneck that Is Throttling the Internet
On 19 June, several hundred thousand US fans of the television drama Game of Thrones went online to watch an eagerly awaited episode—and triggered a partial failure...
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Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.
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Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death...
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Where in the World Is My Data and How Secure Is It?
When Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, requested to see his personal data that Facebook stored on its servers, he was mailed a CD-ROM containing a 1,222...
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Boosting Swimming Performance With Sound Data
Researchers at Bielefeld University have developed a system that offers new training opportunities for swimmers by expanding their perception and feel for the water...
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Data Mining Reveals First Evidence That Absence Really Does Make the Heart Grow Fonder
A project to data-mine mobile phone records found people invest more in relationships where there exists a risk of the relationship weakening.
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed tiny wireless implants that one day could control prosthetics and treat physical disorders....
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Beyond Crispr: A Guide to the Many Other Ways to Edit a Genome
The CRISPR–Cas9 tool enables scientists to alter genomes practically at will.
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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.
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Scientists Are sing Sound to Track Nighttime Bird Migration
Researchers are helping to track the nighttime migratory patterns of birds by teaching a computer to recognize their flight calls.
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